Pavel Dorofeyev celebrating a goal with the Vegas Golden Knights

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Vegas Golden Knights (1-0-2, 4 pts) at Calgary Flames (1-2-0, 2 pts)
Venue: Scotiabank Saddledome
Date: Tuesday, October 14
Time: 9:00 pm ET / 7:00 pm MT

TV: ESPN+ / SCRI / Sportsnet
Radio: 
Vegas Golden Knights – Fox Sports Radio 98.9 FM / 1340 AM
Calgary Flames – Sportsnet 960

DraftKings Sportsbook Betting Lines:
Vegas Golden Knights -1.5 ML -150
Calgary Flames +1.5 ML +130
O/U 5.5

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Vegas Golden Knights News & Notes: 

The Golden Knights are second in goals scored in the young season with 10. Vegas’ power play is running at a 30.8% clip, good for 7th in the NHL. Their penalty kill has struggled early, with a 62.5% success rate, which is 28th in the league.

Calgary Flames News & Notes: 

The Flames have struggled defensively out of the gate, giving up 12 goals, which is 31st in the NHL. Calgary’s penalty kill is 23rd in the league at 75% but the Flames have 41 penalty minutes, which is 30th in the league.

Vegas Golden Knights Projected Lines:

Barbashev-Eichel-Marner
Smith-Karlsson-Stone
Saad-Hertl-Dorofeyev
Howden-Sissons-Kolesar

McNabb-Theodore
Hanifin-Whitecloud
Lauzon-Korczak

Hill
Schmid

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Calgary Flames Projected Lines:

Gridin-Kadri-Coronato
Farabee-Frost-Sharangovich
Honzek-Backlund-Coleman
Lomberg-Zary-Klapka

Weegar-Miromanov
Bahl-Andersson
Hanley-Parekh

Wolf
Cooley

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Players To Watch:

Vegas Golden Knights

Pavel Dorofeyev was the NHL’s first star of the week. The Golden Knights right winger had 5 goals, including 4 power play goals, to lead the NHL. Dorofeyev notched his third career hat trick in a 6-5 shootout loss to the Kings on October 8, then he scored once each in an overtime win against the San Jose Sharks on October 9 and a 2-1 overtime loss to Seattle on October 11. In 4 games against Calgary a year ago, Dorofeyev had 2 goals and 1 assist, and was a +4.

Calgary Flames

Matt Coronato leads all Flames skaters with 3 points (2g, 1a) in 3 games. The 22-year-old winger had a breakout season a year ago with 24 goals and 23 assists. In 3 games against Vegas last season, Coronato had 1 goal and 2 assists.

Injury Report:

Vegas Golden Knights

D Alex Pietrangelo – IR
D Noah Hanifin – Day to Day

Calgary Flames

C Martin Pospisil – IR
LW Jonathan Huberdeau – IR

Next Game:

Vegas Golden Knights – October 16 vs Boston Bruins
Calgary Flames – October 15 at Utah Mammoth

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